Friday, September 8, 2017

Pennsylvania Youth Survey (PAYS)

PENNSYLVANIA YOUTH SURVEY (PAYS)

Since 1989, the Commonwealth has conducted a survey of school students in the 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th grades to learn about their behavior, attitudes and knowledge concerning alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and violence. The ‘Pennsylvania Youth Survey,’ or PAYS, is sponsored and conducted every two years by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.

This year PAYS will be administered to participating school sometime between September 11 and November 22, 2017. Below are the survey questions. Please review and if you would rather your child was not exposed to these questions, you can opt out by emailing your principal.

Email: optoutpatest@gmail.com and request the pdf version if you have a difficult time viewing the survey below.